Re: Legacy clients can't send back confirmation of install

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From: Mark Morrell (morrellm_at_home.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:19:11 -0600

Hey Johan
Nothing yet. I found some other problems that needed fixing more than this
one....so I have only spent a little time on it. I did get one NT machine
to show up with the site code, but still not showing as a client.
"When" I figure it out, I'll post the fix back here.

Mark

"Johan" <Johan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CE87AFF2-8D27-40B6-9F8D-D5D37F054597@microsoft.com...
> Hi Mark!
> I have the same problem....the push install to XP and win 2k works just
fine
> but my NT4 clients cant /will not "pop up" as clients in the SMS Admin
> Console.
> The CCM.LOG says: "Moving request to retry queue for verification"
> Im sure that my connection account has right on my client.....
> Any idees?
>
>
> "Mark Morrell" wrote:
>
> > Good morning!
> > I have finally installed SMS 2003 on a mixed (2000+2003) domain
(advanced
> > security). We have XP (SP1+SP2), W2K and NT4 workstations. The install
> > went great (I spent a LOT of time in these groups). I let it do
discovery
> > for a little over a week and it found most of the systems (another of
the
> > problems I should be able to fix from what I read here). I even pushed
out
> > a couple packages to the XP and 2K clients.
> >
> > So a very big THANK YOU to all you people that spend time in here
helping
> > us.
> >
> > Now the problem: The NT4 boxes can't seem to answer back to SMS that
they
> > got installed. The client is showing up in control panel, but no
components
> > get installed. All of these boxes have the same problem - they can't
even
> > browse (Network neighborhood) to the SMS server even though they can get
to
> > all the others. The weird part is that they can still go get updates
from
> > the Epolicy on the same server. I forced a few EPO updates from the
> > workstations and they found the server.
> > I have one of them here in the back room for testing. It just happened
to
> > pick up an IP address one number off of my 2K machine that works fine (I
> > thought it might have been something with sites and subnets).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >

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